When I watch the Oscars on Sunday, I will keep my fingers crossed for Slumdog Millionaire.
"Slumdog Millionaire" is nominated for 10 Oscars, including best picture and best director for Boyle.
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Adapted from a novel by Vikas Swarup, Slumdog captivates like a South Asian Forrest Gump.
"Slumdog's" main competition, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, " won just three Oscars, all in minor categories.
But the studio has yet to finalize a script, now being written by "Slumdog Millionaire" writer Simon Beaufoy.
They found the word "slumdog" in the title insulting and complained that the movie romanticizes poverty in India.
Danny Boyle, the British director behind films like Slumdog Millionaire, had produced his idea called Isles of Wonder.
Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter for the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, said the accolade was "superb news" for his hometown.
"Slumdog" isn't even the first film centering on India to attract Hollywood's attention.
What troubles me about Slumdog is not the nationality of the various members of its creative team, per se.
The women she meets in the squalid streets where "Slumdog Millionaire" was filmed are often treated with contempt, she says.
As we just talked about, the film "Slumdog Millionaire" has raised awareness of the lives of poor kids in India.
When Slumdog opens, Jamal is one question away from winning 20 million rupees--and, he hopes, finding his long lost sweetheart.
As a plucky quiz-show contestant -- a slumdog underdog -- Jamal keeps giving correct answers to obscure questions and winning more rupees.
The central character in "Slumdog Millionaire" is shown as a Bachchan fan.
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Boyle was named best director for Slumdog Millionaire, which also picked up prizes for Simon Beaufoy's screenplay and for AR Rahman's score.
It follows in the footsteps of The King's Speech and Slumdog Millionaire, which both went on to win Oscars for best picture.
Slumdog won four of the seven awards for which it was eligible.
You might remember a particularly gruesome scene in Slumdog Millionaire in which children are blinded so that they can become more profitable beggars.
But the slum, which was made famous after parts of the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" were filmed there, may not exist for much longer.
It is the first theatre script for the writer, who was an Oscar nominee for The Full Monty and later a winner with Slumdog Millionaire.
It competes with Slumdog Millionaire in four categories, including best kiss.
"Slumdog, " which is set in Mumbai, has also assumed a particularly poignant resonance in light of the recent terror attacks that left 174 people dead.
My discomfort emerges, rather, from the means by which Boyle seeks to label Slumdog as authentic in order to market it to a Western audience.
Slumdog Millionaire's slum-dwellers represent approximately 60% of Mumbai's population who live in the shantytowns and slums - some would say they are the foundation of Mumbai city life.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire") was doing an interview a few feet away Saturday, but people crowded past him for a glimpse of the cat.
Dev Patel, sex-obsessed Anwar in the first two series of E4's Skins, plays Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire, a former street child from Mumbai in India.
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American audiences may want to explore Bollywood films after seeing "Slumdog Millionaire, " Pandya said, but it is unlikely that they will find another film like it.
And I just think that, you know, if the American voters voted the way the foreign press did, then, you know, "Slumdog, " you know, will win.
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